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Sports Energy’s Guide to Sporting Organizations in The Greater Cornwall Area

SPORT CONTACT TELEPHONE EMAIL WEBSITE

S.D.&G. Blazers ............................................Mike Gilligan ............... 613-938-1545 .............................................................www.seawayvalleysoccer.com
Cornwall & District Soccer ............................Chris Smith ................. 613-931-2176
Cornwall Indoor Soccer ................................Frank Chartrand .......... 613-933-5103
SOCCER
Cornwall City Soccer .....................................Frank Chartrand .......... 613-933-5103
Glengarry Soccer League ..............................Stephanie VanLoon ..........................................................................................www.glengarrysoccerleague@bellnet.ca
Youth Indoor Soccer League .........................Frank Chartrand .......... 613-933-5103
OTHER SPORTS
Big Ben Ski Hill and Snowboarding ...............Jack Ruest .................. 613-933-6377
613-933-3586
Cornwall Blue Chargers .................................David James ............... 613-938-4793
Cornwall Curling Club ...................................Scott MacDonald ........ 613-936-2027
Cornwall Multisport Club ..............................Rob Allen .........................................................................................................www.cornwallmultisportclub.com
Cornwall Outdoor Club de Plein Air ................................................... 613-534-8855 .............................................................www.cornwalloutdoorclub.ca
Cornwall Rugby Club ....................................Bill Swinden ................ 613-932-1273
Cougars Track and Field ................................Ceri Timbrell ............... 613-537-9681 .............................................................www.cornwallcougars.org
Taoist Tai Chi .................................................Ghislain Glaude ........... 613-935-5675 ........gglaude@gmail.com ....................www.taoist.org/ottawa
Summerstown Trails XC Ski & Snowshoes ...Jean-Pierre Tibi .......... 613-347-1229 ........summerstowntrails@gmail.com ..www.summerstowntrails.com
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Nutrition for Better Sport Performance

By Jason Christoff to come on line. Getting to bed by 10:30 at medical doctor rarely goes over a patient’s
the latest can aid in giving the body what it food intake so patients (and anyone
lthough the mass media will try to
needs to repair and be ready for the next day watching…including a child) may start to
Aconvince you that better performance
of competition. Getting to bed a little earlier get the impression that food choices don’t
comes in a powder or colourful sugary drink,
can increase the effect. Stretching, yoga and really impact health too much. Unfortunately
Mother Nature has everything you’ll need
additional relaxation methods before bed the exact opposite is true.
to be a better athlete. If you dream about
can further increase this repair effect.
competing at the pro level, better health Food choices will make or break any
will be your foundation both mentally and For optimal repair the athlete should avoid athlete’s long-term success, with very few
physically. TV, computer screens etc as any bright exceptions. Many athletes can ride the wave
artificial light source after sundown triggers of youth and see little impact of a bad diet

The biggest impact on your performance
the body to believe the sun is still up and with on their performance but a long successful
will be sleep. Recuperation is paramount to
that it would interfere with the body’s repair career will ride more on how a person treats
improved strength, endurance and agility.
mechanisms, which are only active when their body than on any other factor. Want
During high intensity sports, extreme
the sun is down. Basically bright lights turn to break some records? That starts in the
amounts of micro traumas are inflicted on

off the body’s repair mechanisms. Having grocery store’s real food sections.
muscular systems and certain metabolic
a bed time ritual that includes progressive
pathways. Our muscles and pathways can Today it’s common for a person to have
relaxation prior to sleep will assure you are
indeed improve and become stronger but the best equipment and pick up a hot dog,
the fastest and strongest athlete over the
only with proper rest and recuperation. chip and fry on the way to the rink or on
long run.
Excess exercise can and will break down the way out. Parents often push children for
the body if enough rest is not placed in The body repairs the muscular system better performance in the next game, as the
between sporting sessions. When a person between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. and repairs the child sips on a neon-colored sugar-laced
pushes their body beyond their body’s mental/neurological systems between 2 a.m. sports drink that will actually decrease a
ability to recover, decreases in performance and 6 a.m.. If these repair times are missed, child’s athletic performance. Nothing could
will occur and the chance of injury increases the damage starts to build up over time and be more counter-productive than focusing
exponentially. Proper down time is important again this can lead to decreased performance on equipment quality and over exercising
for all athletes, at every level. or increased chance of injury. the athlete, while at the same time not
educating the athlete on what a healthy diet
Sleep habits are crucial for optimal The second pillar of proper recuperation
looks like or how to care for the body long
repair from sports based muscular trauma. and repair after sport is food. Food is very
term.
Getting to bed by 10:30 is key, as the body’s different from food-like things or “Franken
hormonal repair systems are synced to the foods”. Today many people are given the In the next article I will describe what an
cycles of the sun. When the sun goes down impression by media, government and optimal diet looks like for an athlete wanting
the body’s energy production system starts medical sources that food considerations to get the most out of their body and their

to decline and the body’s repair systems start aren’t really that important. For example, a career.